There's a quick mention of the Whiffenpoofs in Oliver Stone's "W." In a flashback to his Yale fraternity days, Dubya and his fellow pledges are made to sing the Whiffenpoof song while shivering in an ice bath. The lyrics: "We're poor little lambs who have lost our way. Baa! Baa! Baa!"
Fun fact: Senator Prescott Bush—Dubya's grandfather—actually was a Whiffenpoof.
And now, just so we get the whole family in to this post, here's a video of the 2008 Whiffs serenading former president George H.W. Bush.
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Hey,
Your book caught my eye not once, but twice. The first time I was buying my textbooks in our Brown bookstore. When the line gets really long, it wraps around the music section. The second time, it was being waved in my face by an enthused librarian who knew I was in an a cappella group. You're in a lot of University libraries, actually. Pretty cool, huh?
Others:
Boston U
Amherst
Dartmouth
Princeton
Fordham
Colgate
GWU
Taylor, thanks for the note. The big question: Did you buy the book?!
I kid. Glad to hear it's out there!
Haha, someday! It's definitely a conversation starter if you see that around the house. For now I have my trusty library.
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